Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about St Hilary. You may be able to find further references to St Hilary in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
St Hilary parish, township, and village Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with St Hilary.

Place Type of entry Source
Higher Downs village Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to St Hilary within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Charles Wesley May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall 1
John Wesley 1743: Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles 1
John Wesley 1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Goldsithney 0 2
Perranuthnoe 0 2
Marazion 3 2
St Erth 0 2
Prussia Cove 0 1
St Michaels Mount 7 2
Germoe 0 2
Pengersick 0 2
Ludgvan 2 2
Hayle 2 3
Breage 2 3
Godolphin 0 2
Uny Lelant 0 3
Chyandour 0 2
Phillack 0 2
Carbis Bay 0 1
Penwith 4 2
Gwinear 0 2
Gulval 1 2
Halse Town 0 2